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14-letter words containing e, l, g, a, r

  • regulator gene — any gene that exercises control over the expression of another gene or genes.
  • relay language — a language, usually an internationally dominant one, which acts as a medium to translate other usually little-spoken languages
  • relieving arch — discharging arch.
  • reprogrammable — capable of being programmed.
  • repromulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • retail banking — banking for individual customers
  • retaining wall — a wall for holding in place a mass of earth or the like, as at the edge of a terrace or excavation.
  • rheumatologist — a specialist in rheumatology, especially a physician who specializes in the treatment of rheumatic diseases, as arthritis, lupus erythematosus, and scleroderma.
  • right and left — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
  • right triangle — a triangle having a right angle (contrasted with oblique triangle).
  • roger williams — Ben Ames [eymz] /eɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1889–1953, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
  • rogue elephant — a vicious elephant that has been exiled from the herd.
  • roller bandage — a long bandage rolled into a cylinder
  • roller bearing — a bearing consisting of cylindrical or tapered rollers running between races in two concentric rings, one of which is mounted on a rotating or oscillating part, as a shaft.
  • roller-skating — the act of moving on roller skates
  • root vegetable — edible starchy tuber
  • route flapping — flapping router
  • royal highness — a title used prior to 1917 and designating a brother, sister, child, grandchild, aunt, or uncle belonging to the male line of the royal family. a title used since 1917 and designating a child or grandchild of the sovereign. any person given this title by the Crown.
  • royal marriage — a meld of the king and queen of trumps, as in pinochle. Compare marriage (def 9).
  • running battle — When two groups of people fight a running battle, they keep attacking each other in various parts of a place.
  • saber rattling — a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.
  • saber-rattling — a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.
  • sabre-rattling — If you describe a threat, especially a threat of military action, as sabre-rattling, you do not believe that the threat will actually be carried out.
  • sacred college — the collective body of the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church
  • sacrilegiously — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
  • sacrococcygeal — relating to the sacrum and the coccyx
  • sailing orders — the final orders given to a ship's commander before sailing, concerning matters such as time of departure, destination, etc
  • salad dressing — a sauce for a salad, usually with a base of oil and vinegar or of mayonnaise.
  • sales register — a business machine that indicates to customers the amounts of individual sales, has a money drawer from which to make change, records and totals receipts, and may automatically calculate the change due.
  • salle a manger — a dining room.
  • samuel gompers — Samuel, 1850–1924, U.S. labor leader, born in England: president of the American Federation of Labor 1886–94, 1896–1924.
  • sand lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
  • saxe-altenburg — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
  • scaling ladder — a ladder for climbing high walls.
  • scrambled eggs — scrambled eggs are eggs that are mixed together and then cooked in butter.
  • scrimmage line — line of scrimmage.
  • segmental arch — a shallow arch not including a complete semicircle
  • self-generated — made without the aid of an external agent; produced spontaneously.
  • self-hardening — noting or pertaining to any of various steels that harden after heating without quenching or other treatment.
  • self-operating — automatic.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • self-regarding — consideration for oneself or one's own interests.
  • self-regulated — governed or controlled from within; self-regulating.
  • self-revealing — displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.: an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.
  • self-searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
  • self-slaughter — suicide.
  • selling plater — a horse that competes in a selling race; an inferior horse.
  • selling-plater — a horse that competes in a selling race; an inferior horse.
  • semi-legendary — somewhat legendary; having something of the nature of a legend; almost legendary
  • serial killing — multiple killings or murders carried out by the same person or persons
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